BILL REQ. #:  Z-0549.1 

Read first time 01/30/2007.   Referred to Committee on Health Care & Wellness.

     AN ACT Relating to case management services for dangerous mentally ill offenders; and amending RCW 71.24.470.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 71.24.470 and 1999 c 214 s 9 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) The ((secretary)) regional support networks shall ((contract)) provide, to the extent that funds are appropriated for this purpose, for case management services and such other services as the secretary deems necessary to assist offenders identified under RCW 72.09.370. ((The contracts may be with regional support networks or any other qualified and appropriate entities.))
     (2) The case manager has the authority to assist these offenders in obtaining the services, as set forth in the plan created under RCW 72.09.370(2), for up to five years. The services may include coordination of mental health services, assistance with unfunded medical expenses, obtaining chemical dependency treatment, housing, employment services, educational or vocational training, independent living skills, parenting education, anger management services, and such other services as the case manager deems necessary.
     (3) The legislature intends that funds appropriated for the purposes of RCW 72.09.370, 71.05.145, and 71.05.212, and this section and distributed to the regional support networks are to supplement and not to supplant general funding. Funds appropriated to implement RCW 72.09.370, 71.05.145, and 71.05.212, and this section are not to be considered available resources as defined in RCW 71.24.025 ((and are not subject to the statutory distribution formula established pursuant to RCW 71.24.035)).